Publications by authors named "A VENKATARAMAN"

Background: The novel South London and Maudsley Brain Health Clinic (SLaM BHC) leverages advances in remote consultations and biomarkers to provide a timely, cost-efficient and accurate diagnosis in mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

Aims: To describe the organisation, patient cohort and acceptability of the remote diagnostic and interventional procedures.

Method: We describe the recruitment, consultation set-up, the clinical and biomarker programme, and the two online group interventions for cognitive wellbeing and lifestyle change.

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  • Aging leads to an increase in diseases due to the development of senescent cells that stop dividing and contribute to altered immune responses.
  • The senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP) aims to recruit immune cells to clear damaged cells, but it can inadvertently cause surrounding cells to also become senescent, leading to chronic inflammation known as "inflammaging."
  • An interdisciplinary approach combining biomaterials, microfluidics, and spatial omics is proposed to better understand the aging process and its effects on diseases, highlighting the importance of cellular interactions in tissue environments.
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Mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) is a powerful technique for spatially resolved analysis of metabolites and other biomolecules within biological titissues. However, the inherent low spatial resolution of MSI often limits its ability to provide detailed cellular-level information. To address this limitation, we propose a guided super-resolution (GSR) approach that leverages high-resolution Imaging Mass Cytometry (IMC) images to enhance the spatial resolution of low-resolution MSI data.

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Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) regulate signalling pathways and cell phenotypes, and the visualization of spatially resolved dynamics of PPIs would thus shed light on the activation and crosstalk of signalling networks. Here we report a method that leverages a sequential proximity ligation assay for the multiplexed profiling of PPIs with up to 47 proteins involved in multisignalling crosstalk pathways. We applied the method, followed by conventional immunofluorescence, to cell cultures and tissues of non-small-cell lung cancers with a mutated epidermal growth-factor receptor to determine the co-localization of PPIs in subcellular volumes and to reconstruct changes in the subcellular distributions of PPIs in response to perturbations by the tyrosine kinase inhibitor osimertinib.

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Resting-sate fMRI (rs-fMRI) has emerged as a viable tool to localize the epileptogenic zone (EZ) in medication refractory focal epilepsy patients. However, due to clinical protocol, datasets with reliable labels for the EZ are scarce. Some studies have used the entire resection area from post-operative structural T1 scans to act as the ground truth EZ labels during training and testing.

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